Dorothy Morrissey: Dramatic performance as pedagogy in initial teacher education
This paper focuses on the use of dramatic performance as pedagogy in an elective module in drama education, located in the final semester of a four-year initial teacher education programme in Ireland. The paper...
Shaping Stories
Construire des Histoires (trans. Shaping Stories) playwriting laboratory workshop was held at the Cradle of Creativity from 23rd to 27th May 2017 and welcomed Francophone Theatre Practitioners from 9 different African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo,...
Panali Panali
Panali Panali, presented by Zambia-based Dinaledi Expressions, combines both storytelling and theatre.
“Panali panali” is a Nyanja phrase, roughly equivalent in English to “once upon a time” or “do I have your attention?” Indeed, the...
Carmel O’Sullivan et al: Teaching Artists Working in Inclusive Schools and Educational Settings
There is a long history of artists working in schools dating back to the 1950s, and Rabkin et al. (2011) claim that artists brought ‘a new kind of approach’ and ‘arts pedagogy’ into schools,...
The 19th ASSITEJ World Congress
The 19th ASSITEJ World Congress was held in Cape Town City Hall on Monday 22nd May - Thursday 25th May 2017.
The Congress was an opportunity for all of those involved in the running of...
Wendy Mages: Theatre-in-Education, Language, and Perspective Taking in Early Childhood Education
At the nexus of three disciplines— educational theatre and drama, language development, and cognitive development—this mixed-methods study investigates the effect of a preschool theatre-in-education (TIE) program on the perspective-taking and emergent literacy skills of...
“Never Stop Playing” at the ITYARN Conference
“It is our duty to help the children, they should grow seeing everybody in similar situations. This is our duty!”
- Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona, a South African Children’s Writer and Translator, shared her inspirational and motivating...
Appreciative Dialogue
As part of the Cradle of Creativity, Henrik Køhler and Peter Manscher from the Danish Teatercentrum (trans. Theatre Centre) ran a workshop to guide participants through a structured exploration of their reactions to Karoo Moose (produced by Baxter Theatre...
Lorenzo Garcia: Matters of Otherness and Unlearning with Latinx TYA
A Paper by Lorenzo Garcia, University of North Texas (USA)Presented at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), part of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in...
Elizabeth Anderson and Marsha Finlay: But that’s not right, is it Miss? Colonisation and...
This paper tells of collaborative research in which two primary school teachers designed drama work to help their students navigate challenging journeys. From safe New Zealand classrooms, students used drama to look at the...